Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 13:34:34 -0800 (PST) From: Stranger Bone <ben@narcissus.ml.org> To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ps permission denied? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970202133217.5561A-100000@narcissus.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970202132153.341B-100000@luke.cpl.net>
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On Sun, 2 Feb 1997, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > > > Anyone know why a simple 'ps' now says /dev/mem: permission denied? Is > > > this normal? It used to allow any user to do a ps, ps ax, ect. > > > > Did you upgrade your kernel? What are the perms on /dev/mem? How about > > on ps? > > permissions on ps is: -r-xr-xr-x root wheel # cd /bin # chown root:kmem ps Make ps belong to the correct group # chmod 2555 ps Now make it setgid so it can read /dev/mem > permissions on /dev/mem is: crw-r----- root kmem > > Ben The views expressed above are not those of the Worker's Compensation Board of Queensland, Australia.
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